The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-02
GEORGE c. ToLLMAN.

GEORGE c. ToLLMAN.
Was at Eureka in July, 1886; knew
Mike Flaherty; saw him at tbs inquest
OF The body.
THE DEFENDANT, ALBERT f. ETHER,
Was born July, 1865; over % years Of
age; lived in Tintic mineral district
fifteen years; am a miner; was at
Eureka July 9th, 1886, the time Joseph
Fisher was lynched; l was IN the jail
with the deceased to dress his wOun 5,
and TO JaKe charge CT the Jail under the
direction Of Constable Stanley; l went
into the Jail about O'Clock, and t.
NAMED until the time of tn Iyncning,
which occurred about 10 o CLOCK; when
the door was open l stepped OuJ ana
saw about fifteen or twenty persons;
were about rs men l the vicinity:
was WI ness IN the case and Identified
the defendants on trial; On the day
Mike tlaherty was killed | walked down
to the saloon to see he papers,
walked up to the table; saw IL was
an old paper. and l went over to
Rovle's Ca BIN; Sill Johnson came there
about clock, and SAID let's so up
and wake Dillon up; as soon as we got
there Leech handed me a $40, ana
asked ne to 20 after eCWe whisky;
gave them all a drink when [ cam
back; we made some remarks aoOut
nv pistols; offered 10 sell them TO John
son; he said That looks D. city bad"
johnson went out abouC 5 ciolk, and
/ went to get the pistols to show them
to HIM before he went; said here's the
pistol, sill be replied that he would Sc
me later about IL; Lecch came in and
handed him the money-change back;
[ pic6ed no a book III DIlion'S room
nut on ny coat and sat down to read;
| handed one of he pistols TO Donahue
when Leech said TO Donahur, Let Inc
see that" and at the same time stuck
it IN the side of the bed; l sat
down on box by the door AID read
while, a couple of pages; then they
ALL PROPOSED TO TAKE DRINK;
then Leech asked NE to read some
thing for them; l read some
to them; the bottle had fallen over,
and when they asked about another
drink, l told them the bottle was
empty; Leech then handed me another
dollar TO go for more; | got the liquor
and returned IN anout fifteen minutes;
all drank around; Leech asked me if l
knew any good Irish pieces; / then re
cited two pieces for them; Leech PLAYED
q tune or two on his flute then, and
recited long piece at their request; |
then said | guess I'll get another book
as | started to go Donahue rose up OF
the bed and said: Bert, you are G.
d-s- of b." and threw his gun
down on me, and said: How easy
could down you now, you $ OF a b. -
and snapped his gun; saying. AM
man that will carry gun IN mining
camp is s-of q b." l Teplied thai
that was d cowardly act to get the star
of one like that; Flaherty tuen jumped
up and SAID Bert Et Ter you are c.
d. s-of b." and passed through The
door into the next room; Game bsck
g few seconds with a pistol; [ jumped
and grabbed the pistol from his hOni
we had a scuffie, and pushed him over
towards the bed and fired; l tnen hear,
gun snap behind me, and l whlrle
around and saw DOnahue hal his.gui
leYeled on me;
WE BOTH SHOT
at about the same time, and the light
went out; when l. ech lit match
DongLue was falling over the bed
I went to the Don t. en-; told some o
the bows what | ha done; bad t@
drinks: then ordered telegram sentte
Dyer; rode horse to Sautaquin; tele
graphed to Deputy Pratt; l asked the